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The excellency of the Gospel above the law Wherein the liberty of the sons…The excellencie of the Gospell above the law Wherein the liberty of the sonnes…
The excellency of the Gospel above the law Wherein the liberty of the sons of God is showed. With the image of their graces here, and glory hereafter. Which affords much comfort and great encouragement, to all such as begin timely, and continue constantly in the ways of God. By R. Sibbs, D.D. Mr. of Katherin Hall Cambridge, and preacher of Gray's-Inn, London. Begun in his life time, and published by T.G. and P.N.The excellencie of the Gospell above the law Wherein the liberty of the sonnes of God is shewed. With the image of their graces here, and glory hereafter. Which affords much comfort and great incouragement, to all such as begin timely, and continue constantly in the wayes of God. By R. Sibbs, D.D. Mr. of Katherin Hall Cambridge, and preacher of Grayes-Inne, London. Begun in his life time, and published by T.G. and P.N.
London: printed by Tho. Cotes and John Dawson, 1639
Excellency of the GOSPEL above the LAW. › PartExcellency of the GOSPEL above the LAVV. › Part
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The Gospel is the good Word of God, Heb. 6. It reveals the good God to us, and the good Christ, it is a sweet word: for Christ could do us no good without the word, if there were not an obligation, a covenant made between God and us,1 the foundation of which covenant, is the satisfaction of Christ, if there were not promises built upon the covenant of grace, whereby God hath made himself a debtor, what claim could a sinful soul have to Christ, and to Gods mercy? but God ⟨p. 272⟩hath bound himself in his word, therefore the grace of God shines in Christ, and all that is in Christ, is conveyed to us, by the word, by the promise. The Gospel then is a sweet word. You know that breeding promise of all others, Gen. 3. The seed of the woman, that repealed and conveyed the mercy of God in Christ to Adam: So the continuance of that and all the sweet and gracious promises, bud from that, all meet in Christ, as in a cen•er, all are made for him, and in him, he is the sum of all the promises, all the good things we have, are parcels of Christ, Christ, he is the ⟨p. 273⟩word of the Father, that discovers all from the bosom of his Father, therefore he is named the Word, the Gospel is the word from him. Christ was discovered to the Apostles, and from the Apostles to us, to the end of the world by his Spirit accompanying the ordinance, so the Mirror wherein, we see the glorious mercy of God, is first Christ, God shines in him, and then there is another glass wherein Christ is discovered, the glass of the Gospel, thus it pleaseth God to condescend, to stoop to us poor sinners, to reveal his glory, the glory of his mercy, fitly, ⟨p. 274⟩and suitable in a Saviour, God-man,2 God incarnate, God our Brother, God our Kinsman, and to do it all yet more familiarly to discover it in a word: and then to ordain a Ministry, together with the Word, to lay open the riches of Christ, for it is not the Gospel, considered nakedly, but the Gospel unfolded by the Ministry.